§ Mr. HobanTo ask the Secretary of State for Education and Skills how many schools participated in the Pathfinder Transforming the School Workforce project in 2003–04; what the total value of that support was; and what financial support will be given to these schools in 2004–05. [144846]
§ Mr. Miliband32 schools participated in the Transforming the School Workforce Pathfinder project that ran during the academic year 2002/03. In total, some £1 million was allocated to the schools in the financial year 2003–04. The Pathfinder project has now come to an end—a full evaluation will be published in the new year. No additional funding will be allocated to the Pathfinder schools in 2004–05.
§ Mr. LuffTo ask the Secretary of State for Education and Skills pursuant to his answer of 8 December 2003,Official Report, columns 287–88W, on Pathfinder projects, if he will publish the table to which the answer refers. [145470]
§ Mr. MilibandThe information requested is shown in the following tables, copies of which have been placed in the Libraries.296W
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Department for Education and Skills pathfinder projects 2003–04 Local education authority. Number of school Total funding Barking and Dagenham 15 150,280 Barnet 7 38,000 Barnsley 4 29,709 Bath and North East Somerset 4 62,840 Bedfordshire n/a 162,460 Bexley 1 8,500 Birmingham 134 494,152 Blackburn with Darwen 5 25,000 Bradford 12 90,000 Brent 4 38,300 Brighton and Hove 50 140,380 Bristol, City of 2 25,000 Bromley 8 43,880 Buckinghamshire 4 21,340 Bury 30 65,460 Calderdale 34 32,900 Cambridgeshire 6 31,440 Camden 1 5,300 Cheshire 2 40,790 Cornwall 13 51,700 Coventry 59 725,720 Croydon 8 50,000 Cumbria 14 659,860 Darlington 2 57,980 Derby, City of 2 466,755 Derbyshire 3 718,162 Doncaster 2 86,900 Dorset 1 8,500 Dudley 3 258,703 Durham 1 225,806 Ealing 1 75,000 East Riding of Yorkshire 115 137,705 East Sussex 2 31,400 Enfield 59 182,476 Essex 21 338,972 Gateshead n/a 420,980 Gloucestershire 5 73,814 Greenwich 2 33,548 Hackney 9 185,000 Halton 10 100,000 Hammersmith and Fulham 9 250,848 Hampshire 76 227,657 Haringey 5 30,000 Harrow 1 315,919 Herefordshire 1 17,285 Hertfordshire 79 672,937 Hounslow 15 67,720 Isle of Wight 1 2,300 Islington n/a 250.938 Kent 520 367,476 Kingston upon Hull, City of 5 118,430 Kirklees 8 55,000 Knowlsey 45 1,133,605 Lambeth 2 64,186 Lancashire 75 194,950 Leeds 3 18,375 Leicestershire 3 58,500 Lewisham 2 503,950 Lincolnshire 9 457,085 Liverpool 76 263,542 Manchester 3 351,296 Medway 1 1,750 Merton 3 22,000 Middlesbrough 1 5,000 Newham 15 388,300 Norfolk 92 444,950 North Lincolnshire n/a 484,085 North Somerset 6 8,500 North Tyneside 137 346,082 North Yorkshire 1 17,000 Northamptonshire 2 63,845 Northumberland 4 8,500
Local education authority Number of schools Total funding Nottingham City of 9 444,500 Nottinghamshire 71 705,161 Oldham 44 878,045 Oxfordshire 3 87,303 Peterborough, City of 1 143,000 Plymouth, City of 7 435,327 Portsmouth 10 90,750 Redbridge 4 63,400 Richmond upon Thames 32 70,349 Rotherham 2 11,065 Salford 1 5,834 Sandwell n/a 182,048 Sefton 1 31,340 Sheffield 43 286,180 Shropshire 4 806,483 Slough 2 38,770 Solihull 2 66,800 Somerset 7 405,406 South Gloucestershire n/a 691,639 South Tyneside 16 168,000 Southampton n/a 395,200 Southend 2 20,792 Southwark 3 291,352 St. Helens 1 41,000 Staffordshire 3 46,587 Stockport n/a 330,419 Stockton-on-Tees 3 530,574 Stoke-on-Trent 1 12,000 Suffolk 6 174,475 Surrey 2 56,586 Tower Hamlets 3 382,754 Trafford 1 15,000 Wakefield 4 412,500 Walsall 1 202,048 Wandsworth 1 16,010 Warrington 3 185,299 Warwickshire 6 915,194 West Sussex 4 64,542 Westminster, City of 3 587,528 Wigan 1 25,000 Wiltshire 10 82,232 Wokingham 12 26,000 Wolverhampton n/a 881,564 Worcestershire 25 42,500 York 5 299,500 England 2,214 25,254,779 n/a=Funding will be shown for this project but `n/a' for the number of schools.Notes:
- 1. Schools may be involved in more than one project, as a result some schools may be counted more than once.
- 2. The number of institutions involved in the 14–19 Pathfinders are not held centrally.
§ Dr. KumarTo ask the Secretary of State for Education and Skills if he will make a statement on the Pathfinder project, Transforming the School Workforce, and its benefits for people in Middlesbrough South and East Cleveland. [144745]
§ Mr. MilibandThe implementation of the National Agreement on Raising Standards and Tackling Workload will benefit teachers, support staff and, most importantly, pupils. The experience of the Pathfinder schools has demonstrated what can be achieved through workforce reform and how those changes can best be managed at school level. The lessons learned from the project will help schools across the country to make the298W best use of their resources and to free teachers to focus on teaching and learning. A full evaluation of the project will be published in the new year.